Assessing Risk

What’s the Risk?

Risk –how can you assess business risk on the global level? The fear is no longer about developing-world governments nationalizing your overseas business. Instead, the problems are breach of contract, restrictions on the transfer and convertibility of profits, civil disturbance, government failure to honor guarantees, and regulatory restrictions from the countries where firms have invested heavily (Harvard Business Review 2010).

You need an unbiased viewpoint, you need a specialist, and you need our expert. She is well versed in government relations, emerging market political risk across a wide variety of industries. She also has her propers in industry analysis in the oil, gas and mining fields. She received her doctorate in political science from MIT and is the founder and principal of a governance solutions company where she aids clients in political risk and mitigation strategies. The expert has consulted for the World Commission on Dams, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank to name a few. She has given numerous lectures on how companies interact with governments and public watchdog groups. She is currently completing a book on the politics of reform at the World Bank. Beyond her US and European experience, she has lived and worked in both Latin America and the Caribbean and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

How can you utilize the expert?
ORC International clients with government relation questions as well as those assessing political risk in industries beyond her core oil, gas and mining can count on her expertise. Companies with deployed assets needing emerging market risks analysis or those interested in potential investment will benefit from time with our expert. She has studies appearing in several academic journals, serves as a member of the executive committee of Pact, and is a director of the Caribbean Central American Research Council. She has advised on political risk assessment for possible market entry in an unpredictable setting as well as instructing companies on regulatory compliance issues and how to work through social development projects.

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